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 MOONdays

Be safe this Halloween...

Even Luna has a ghost.

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Saturday Symmetry

Public conveniences made inconvenient due to padlocks. Still... some symmetry was the compensation!

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"Adopt the pace of nature - her secret is patience."

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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Last Thursday before spooky time...

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Wings on Wednesday;
YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

Another wagtail... do you see it?

Having a grand old time dipping in and out of the water. One big birdbath, is Loch Eck!

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 Shipping by...

The  ANMI is part of this Norwegian fleet, though flagged in the Bahamas.

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 Monday's Critters

I was not only surprised to find sunflowers so abundant in late September in NE Bonny Land, but also to discover the company they kept... a buff-tailed bumblebee and the smaller honey bee.

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SUNdays

Loch Lomond on one of those special autumn days...

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 Saturday Symmetry

Even the plainest of gates can be relied upon for symmetry.

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"Try a little harder. Be a little better."

(G B Hinckley)

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'Tis Thursday...

This azalea flowering last spring might pass for autumn colour!

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 Wings on Wednesday;

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

This Wagtail was very entertaining as it made great efforts to tease its fledgling from the nest. I sat for a good half hour watching it doing air ballet, lots of chirping and chuffing; it gathered food (which you can just about make out here) and kept flying to the entrance in the wall to show the youngster the food, then quickly flicked back to this perch in hopes it was enough to tease it out... eventually, it was!

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 Shipping by...

Cruisers are finally back on track... Can't say I missed them, particularly.

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 Monday's Critters

Abdomen of a Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi) - yet another species that arrived from foreign parts and appears to be thriving and moving northward. The web was so fine it just doesn't show in this early-morning shot.

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 SUNdays

Oil rigs rest on the skyline at Invergordon, Cromarty Firth, sunrise.

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 Saturday Symmetry

It pays to look down sometimes... pattern exists everywhere!

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"All your tomorrows start here."

(Neil Gaiman)

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 Thursdays - insistant - stick to the week like a fly in a web!!!

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Wings on Wednesday;
YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

A European Peacock butterfly in the burst of autumn sun that graced our visit to our aunt and uncle in the NE of this Bonny Land. Both the 23'C temps and this beauty surprised us! (I KNOW it's not a bird, but wings it most definitely has...)

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 Shipping by...

Aside from the fact that I was absent from the Hutch for some eighteen months prior to last Christmas, it is also only in the past two to three months that shipping has started to show up again as it did before the world stopped. Not quite as busy as it was, but so good to have something train the camera lenses on again.

EINSTEIN is a Container Ship that was built in 2012 (9 years ago) and is sailing under the flag of Cyprus.

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 Monday's Critters

On my recent sojourn from the Hutch for a first-time-this-year outing and stayaway, I got to meet my cousin's new family member. Gabby is a three-year-old Golden Retriever provided by Bravehound; my cousin is a veteren of Desert Storm (ex-RAF). She's a distraction, that's for sure - a work in progress, shall we say. 

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SUNdays

Van Gogh chew your ear off... this is the north of the Bonny Land! (The sun part belonging to the flowers on this occasion...)

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Saturday Symmetry

This lamp guards the war memorial at Sandbank, on the Holy Loch.

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"Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love."

(Alfred Sisley)

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Well, here we are at Thursday...

The Gantocks channel marker in the Clyde firth. Yes, that is what made the blog header until recent changeover.

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Wings on Wednesday;
YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

These have been lurking in the Fudge's card since the spring - shame on me. A pair of sparrows brought up two broods in the nesting box on the telegraph pole at the back window... this was them refreshing the nest between batches!

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Shipping by...

This was a quick grab of the Hisstix, point and shoot with barely time for the poor wee thing to focus through the double-glazing. The sub was moving at a lick and was gone in a few seconds. That's the Coriusk up behind... ferry between Largs and Isle of Cumbrae. It comes in of an evening to anchor at Greenock.

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Monday's Critters

This thing showed up one evening about a month back. A very exotic insect for these parts. Took quite a while to ascertain ID... almost two inches long from eyes to butt, it turns out this is a Mexican wasp species known as Netelia. 

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SUNdays

One of those late summer sunset sensations that happen over The Hutch...

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Saturday Symmetry

Connel Bridge, over Loch Etive. Yes, that's in glorious technicolour. 

Hashtag this is Scotland...

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...The Last Rose Of Summer..??? At least I found a Rose for Rosy (see over at LLB gang for Nature Friday - link in the sidebar!)